Re: Money casting too liberal?

On 28 Mar 2013 20:50:42 GMT
Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> wrote:
> it actually does that, if you have the locale installed you can set
> LC_MONETARY to  Japan  and get no decimals and a Yen symbol
> or to UAE and get three decimals and their currency symbol.

Must have been added by someone else after I worked on it.  I thought
about that issue but felt that that was the wrong solution.  The
problem is that the same data displays differently depending on who
runs the query.

I would have rather made that part of the column definition similar to
how we create timestamps with or without timezones.  If a column is
tracking Yen it should always be Yen.  Y10,000 should never display as
$100.00 just because the locale changes.

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